The Shared Universe: Perspectives on Alien Life

📖 The Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations: The Science and Imagination of SETI

From the publisher: Scientists are scanning the sky for traces of extraterrestrial life. The most advanced search is now under way at the SETI Institute in California. This book aims to open their fascinating work to the general reader.

From the critics:

Publishers Weekly

Shostak is the public programs scientist at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute. In this engaging, speculative book, he builds a rigorous case for the importance of the institute’s work, steadily narrowing the range of stars in the galaxy that might nurture life and boldly imagining the forms non-carbon-based life might take. Shostak writes: “Although most of the American public believes aliens are visiting Earth, most scientists do not.” In the book’s final chapters, Shostak describes scientific reality with the vivid, dramatic touch of the science-fiction films he clearly loves: “If this really happens, it will begin slowly and without warning, in a crowded, cluttered radio-telescope control room packed with equipment… under hundreds or thousands of tons of steel, facing pinpoints of starlight in the night sky.” The book is full of thoughtful, compelling scientific discussion, though it occasionally slides into over-speculation about artificial intelligence in space, or into deliberate promotion of the institute. The chapters on possible alien behavior and on the motives and methods of contact—all of them compared with films—are fascinating, and they reveal our own nature as deeply as they reveal any visitors who might come. The book includes twenty-three pages of photographs and illustrations. (Published in March)

📚 Source:UFO Evidence Bookstore

Sharing the Universe: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life Seth Shostak Shostak is the Public Programs Scientist for the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute. In this fascinating speculative book, he builds a careful case for the importance of the institute’s work, narrowing the range of the galaxy’s possibly life-nurturing stars and imagining what forms non-carbon-based life might take.

— UFO Evidence